“Morning,” a bronze electric light standard, Leeds, by Alfred Drury, R.A.

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Morning

Alfred Drury, R.A., 1856-1944

c. 1898

Bronze

City Square, Leeds

Signed on side of plinth: “ALF DRURY A.R.A. Sc”

This bronze nude functions as a light standard in City Square.

Related material

Evening [second half of the pair]

Photograph in the 1906 Studio

Photograph and text by Robert Freidus

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Bibliography

Baldry, A. Lys. “A Notable Sculptor: Alfred Drury, A.R.A.” The Studio. 37 (1906): 3-18. Internet Archive digitized from a copy in the University of Toronto Library. [Full text with illustrations in the Victorian Web.]

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. 113-14.

Pevsner, Nikolaus. Yorkshire: The West Riding. 2nd ed. revised by Enid Radcliffe. [Harmondsworth] : Penguin Books, 1967.

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